Peeping into the Immortal Road

Chapter 42 Learning to Alchemy
Passing through the bustling streets of the market town, Ji Chang walked to a house in the outer city area.

The Cangyufang City is roughly divided into three areas according to the concentration of spiritual energy.

Core area, inner city and outer city.

The core area is where the spiritual energy is most abundant. There are no shops, only caves, which are specially provided for rent to monks who have no shortage of spiritual stones and are dedicated to cultivation.

Almost all the people living in the inner city are cultivators, and they are all cultivators in the middle and late stages of Qi Refining. The spiritual energy is abundant, and there are many shops. It can be regarded as the prime location of Cangyufang City.

The outer city area where Ji Chang is located is a gathering place for cultivators in the early stages of Qi Refining and mortal warriors.

The spiritual environment here is relatively poor, but the rental price is lower.

The house that Ji Chang rents only costs ten spirit stones every year. For a cultivator like him, it is a considerable expense, but it is still within an affordable range.

Of course, for ordinary warriors, this price is still too high.

They often rent a house together with many people and share the rent.

The reason why Ji Chang chose to rent in the outer city area was mainly due to the rent price and the distance from the spiritual fields outside the market town.

For a cultivator like him who is in charge of managing spiritual fields, he needs to frequently go to the outskirts of the market to check on the growth of the spiritual rice.

The house in the outer city area is closest to the spiritual field, so he can go to the spiritual field more conveniently, saving a lot of time and energy.

Ji Chang stood at the gate of the house, gently pushed the door open, and walked into the house.

The houses and shops in Cangyu Market all belong to the market, and monks only have the right to rent them.

Perhaps there are purchasing channels for high-level monks.

But for low-level cultivators like Ji Chang, they can only pay to rent a place.

The caves in the core area and the houses in the inner city area all have their own formation protection.

However, the houses in the outer city area have nothing.

According to Fangshi, this is done because ordinary warriors are unable to lift the ban.

For cultivators, if they want to set up a formation in a house in the outer city area, there are only two ways.

Either you are proficient in formations and can use various materials to set up your own formations.

Or you can purchase a formation plate and directly activate it to set up the formation in the house.

In the Cangyu Market, only the inner city area has shops that specialize in selling items related to formations.

The formation plates in these shops are expensive and not affordable for ordinary cultivators.

Of course, there are also cheap formations, but they are basically not very useful.

In the Cangyufang City, only the inner city area has a formation shop.

Ji Chang's valuables were all placed in the storage bag he carried with him, so he didn't have much need to set up a formation.

In his opinion, instead of spending a lot of spirit stones and energy to set up the formation, it would be better to use these resources to practice and improve his own strength.

After all, strength is the basis for everything.

Walking into the house, Ji Chang concentrated his attention on the peeping scene in his mind.

At this time, the figure in the picture has changed.

Chen Qianyun, who had been spied on by Ji Chang before, had disappeared, and in his place appeared a little old man with white hair and beard and an old face.

Ji Chang did not know this person's specific name, he only knew that his surname was Wang and he was a famous alchemist in the outer city area.

Although Master Wang is limited by his cultivation and skills and can only refine a few first-grade low-grade elixirs, he is still a popular figure in the outer city area.

There were only three medicine shops in the outer city, one of which belonged to Master Wang. His medicine shop was doing a booming business, with a constant stream of monks coming to buy medicine every day.

A few months ago, Ji Chang had dealt with him when he went to purchase Qi Condensation Pills that could improve his cultivation.

Then, Ji Chang directly planted a mark on him and chose him as the target of spying.

The reason why they chose Master Wang Dan as the target of surveillance was naturally because they were eyeing his alchemy skills.

Among the hundreds of arts of cultivating immortals, alchemy, weapons, talismans and formations are the most important skills.

If you can master the art of alchemy, you can not only earn a large amount of spirit stones, but also obtain sufficient resources for cultivation.

Moreover, you can take the pills that you make yourself without any worries.

Different from things like magical instruments and talismans.

Pills are something that enter the body directly after being taken.

If you take pills of unknown origin, at best they will not work as intended, or at worst they may contain deadly poisons, causing irreversible damage to your body.

Therefore, one does not need to master other skills, but one must understand the art of alchemy.

In addition, Ji Chang also has certain advantages in alchemy.

His ability to peek allows him to observe Master Wang's alchemy process in real time and learn from his experience and skills.

Moreover, as early as when Ji Chang was still a mortal, he had already mastered the mortal medicine-making method such as "Hundred Flowers Medicinal Records".

Ji Chang has a certain level of knowledge in pharmaceutical manufacturing, so the threshold for alchemy is not as high as he imagined.

Ji Chang quietly observed Master Wang in the picture. He saw him sitting in the back hall of the medicine shop, scolding a mortal clerk.

After discovering that Master Wang Dan did not refine the elixir, Ji Chang withdrew his attention.

The next moment, Ji Chang took out a small alchemy furnace and several medicinal materials from his storage bag.

The alchemy furnace in Ji Chang's hand was carefully selected by him at a cost of more than ten spirit stones, although it was only a first-grade low-quality magic weapon.

But for Ji Chang, who had just started to learn alchemy, it was already a very good tool for alchemy.

In the past few months, Ji Chang had gradually figured out some tricks and techniques by observing Master Wang's alchemy process, and had barely gotten started in alchemy.

However, at most, it can only refine basic elixirs such as the Bigu Pill which are of low grade.

There is still a long way to go before being able to refine a true first-grade elixir.

Of course, Ji Chang’s cultivation level was also one of the reasons that limited his alchemy skills.

For most monks, alchemy relies on the flames spawned by spells, which allow them to control the flames more finely.

However, alchemy is often a very time-consuming process, and some elixirs even need to be refined continuously for several days or even months.

For low-level cultivators, their mana reserves are often unable to sustain for such a long period of time, which becomes an insurmountable threshold for them in alchemy.

However, there are also some special alchemy methods in the world of immortal cultivation, which use spiritual fires of heaven and earth such as the fire of the earth veins to make alchemy.

However, spiritual fire is rare and often accompanied by great danger, so not all cultivators have the opportunity to use it.

In addition, there are some special spiritual plants that can draw fire to make elixirs.

For example, the specialty of the Chen family in Cangling, the blue sky bamboo.

This kind of spiritual bamboo can not only be used as a material for alchemy and refining, but can also be used as a fire starter.

When the Azure Bamboo is ignited, it will produce a blue flame. Using this flame to refine elixirs can not only save the cultivator's mana, but also has miraculous effects on the refining of certain special elixirs.

(End of this chapter)